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Today Jacobs' brainchild, FLW Tour (named after bass-boat pioneer Forrest L. Wood), has moved tournament bass fishing from the swampy border of sports to deep in the mainstream. Each week pro fishermen aboard boats that resemble floating billboards--welcome to BASSCAR--seek out big fish and big bucks. There are now four separate bass tours and a fifth for walleye that began this year. At this year's championship, to be held on Lake Champlain in Plattsburgh, N.Y., the winner will net $250,000. Says Irwin: "I'm sitting here feeling pretty good...
...Henry Schacht as saying, "These are uncertain times. We've got on our belts, suspenders, parachutes and skyhooks." But that?s Lucent. And at Microsoft, business marches on - it?s presenting the finished version, or "gold code," of Windows XP to PC manufacturers on Friday. Along with a dead fish wrapped in newspaper...
...Smith, who owns the place with his wife Sandy, is that tiger muskies have reappeared in Elephant Lake. Tiger muskies, a cross of muskies and northern pike, cannot reproduce; they were stocked in the lake forty years ago, but not since then. Now Bill Smith believes - though the Ontario fish and game people express doubt - that the Elephant Lake muskies have been miscegenating with the northern pike next door on Baptiste Lake. Smith shows a picture to prove it - a tiger muskie caught recently in Baptiste...
...trolled toward Sheer Rock Island, we saw that in addition to the flock of white and gray gulls that always congregate on the archipelago of rocks dribbling out from the point, there now stood four blackish, scrawny cormorants - freshwater coyotes much given to a diet of sport fish. Win some (tiger muskies), lose some (via cormorants...
...cormorants jeered. The muskies laughed. The judge, however, was very polite. He averted his gaze, and talked about getting a big fish tomorrow...